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CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 453 CHAPTER XV SOME OF THOSE WHO CAME OVER. That business activity is not the foe of longevity, is a fact readily demonstrable in every mart and business center. That it is the case in Columbus, is shown in what follows later. Business Men From the 35th to 66th Degree. Appended are the names of a number of business men nearly all of whom are still active in business, who have been so engaged in Columbus 454 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS for from thirty-five to sixty-six years. Nor are they bent and decrepit men, feeble and slow with lack-luster eyes, looking askance for the Oslerian executioners to smite them; but men strong of body and mind full of optimism, and proper human ambitions and aspirations; clear of eye and voice and not uncertain of step; abreast the times and interested in all that makes for the advancement of the race. A Striking Monograph. This list by no means comprises all the eligibles in the city, scores of others, evidently too bashful to concede the facts and join the procession, when the mastering officer of history called them into line. Too modest and shrinking, in fact, to have their names and ages enrolled in the state capital's centennial annals. The following named gentlemen, however, were young enough to remember back to their beginnings, and their names are set down in the reverse order: That is to say, the highest degrees appear at the top and go down from the highest to the lowest, with the privilege remaining over to the reader to follow the Sanskrit and read from the bottom of the page upward. The Sixty-sixth Degree. William Greene Deshler, banker, has attained his distinction. He entered the banking business as teller of the Clinton Bank at the corner of Broad and High, where now stands the Deshler National Bank, founded by him and in which he is still the important factor. He resides at 68 East Broad. He has always been a banker at the "old stand." The Sixty-second Degree. Charles Hardy, banker, became collection clerk of the City Bank of Columbus, January 2, 1846; was elected cashier of the Exchange Branch of the State Bank of Ohio, January 7, 1856; has filled the position as cashier since that date; is cashier at this writing of the Deshler National Bank. Residence 46 South Sixth street. The Fifty-ninth Degree. John W. Brown, manufacturer, began as drug clerk in 1849. Three years later he became a railway conductor out of Columbus. Later he entered manufacturing and is now the head of a manufacturing company for the production of vehicle lamp and mill and mine supplies, etc. The Fifty-ninth Degree. Dr. William F. Schwartz, druggist, is one of the two fifty-niners. He entered Denig's drug store in Columbus in 1849. His health failing, he took the newspaper cure in 1855. becoming pressman and circulator of the Ohio Statesman, under Governor Samuel Medary. After running a hand CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 455 press for a. few years, he was satisfied, if not entirely cured, and again entered the drug business in the Ohio drug store, South High; the Scheuller drug store, Rich and High; and the Diess drug store, East Main; and in 1887, founded the well known Schwartz drug store, Fifth and Main streets. He retired in 1892. Resides at 492 South Third. If he re-enters business, it will be as a fruit grower in Florida.. The Fifty-fifth Degree. Pelatiah Webster Huntington, banker, became clerk in the Exchange Branch of the State Bank of Ohio, August 3, 1853, and was elected cashier in 1856. He is stockholder and officer in various other Columbus banks; founded the Huntington National Bank, southwest corner Broad and High, of which he is president. He has devoted himself almost exclusively to banking since he entered upon the business. Residence East Broad. The Fifty-third Degree. Henry Laufersweiler, harnessmaking and grocer, began in the harness trade with Burdell in 1855 and followed that line of business until 1864. He then engaged in the grocery business on East Main street, continuing until his retirement early in 1908. Residence 471 East Main. The Fifty-third Degree. Henry C. McClellan, books and stationery, entered the business November 10, 1856, and in 1859 was located at 113 South High. He became a member of the firm of Randall, Aston & Company, in 1874. He founded the present house of H C. McClellan & Company, corner of Gay and High with Frederick W. Flowers as his partner. Residence 321 East Broad. The Fifty-second Degree. Robert E. Sheldon, wholesale dry goods, entered the grocery store of John McIntire & Company, High and Rich streets, in 1857. He was with Dwight Stone & Company, dry goods, from 1859 to 1863; with Kelton, Bancroft & Company in 1864; with Miller, Green & Joyce; admitted to the firm in 1874. He established the wholesale dry goods house of Miles, Bancroft & Sheldon in 1885; founded the present The Sheldon Dry Goods Company in 1900; and located its extensive buildings at Chestnut and Third streets in 1905. Residence 683 East Broad. The Fifty-first Degree. Gustavus Patton, bookbinder, stationer and blank book manufacturer, entered the business in 1857; has been engaged in the business with short 456 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS vacations since. He is president of the Miller Patton Company, binders, etc. Residence 569 Franklin avenue. The Forty-eighth, Degree. John Duffy, of Ireland, came to the United States in 1853, and in 1860 established an extensive grocery house, where he continued to do a thriving business until 1882, when he disposed of the establishment and retired with a handsome competence. He resides at 319 East Gay street. The Forty-sixth Degree. Louis Link, livery and sales .stables, engaged in the business, in 1862. He has occupied the same site, 21 West Rich street for more than a third of a century, and many of his present customers were his clients during the period of the great Civil war. Residence 97 West Rich. The Forty-sixth Degree. Andrew Dobbie, retail dry goods, entered the business (when a young Scotchman) as a clerk in the store of Bain & Son, December 1, 1862. He entered into partnership with Gilchrist, Gray & Company in September, 1867. He became sole proprietor of the business in 1881. Since 1902 he has occupied the large Osborn building South High, midway between State and Town. Residence 691 East Broad. The Forty-fifth Degree. Walter A. Mahoney, real estate and mortgage loans, from 1863 to 1876 was engaged in the sale of confections and fruits and other like delicacies. In the latter part of 187 6 he entered the real-estate and loan business and has been very successful. He is one of the prominent business men of Columbus who takes a deep and active interest in the world-wide peace movement. He was a prominent delegate in the recent World's Peace Conference at London, England. The Forty-fourth Degree. Fred Lazarus, clothing and furnishing, entered the store of his father, Simon Lazarus, April 1, 1864; has been with the house ever since and has been its head since it changed to F. & R. Lazarus & Company in 1878. It is now the F. & R. Lazarus Company, located at southwest corner Town and High, opposite the site of the firm's great steel building, now in process of completion. Residence 1080 Bryden Road. The forty-fourth Degree. David E. Putnam, fire. insurance and real estate, was bookkeeper for J. D. Osborn & Company, from May, 1864, to April, 1875; engaged in fire in- CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 457 surance 1875-6; was cashier of state treasury 1876-8; was with Kershaw, Krauss & Putnam, carpets, 1878-80; from 1880 in the insurance business; stockholder, former vice president and president of the Commercial National Bank; was a soldier in the Civil war; and wounded at battle of Chickamauga. The Forty-fourth Degree. Frederick W. Schueller, druggist, began business at Rich and High, as clerk and pharmacist, November 20, 1864, at Schueller's Eagle drug store; still in business at the same place. The firm has been: 1856-63, Ernest Schueller: 1878-83, F. W. & A. M. Schueller; 1883 to present date, F. W. Schueller. Residence 814 Bryden Road. The Forty-second Degree. Charles Huston, druggist, entered business as proprieor of Huston's drug store at 47 South High street, January, 1866; conducted the business at the same stand for thirty-six years; and retired in 1902. Residence 46 South Monroe avenue. The Fortieth Degree. John G. Drayer, building, cement and stone, entered the business in 1868 and has been so engaged from that time to the present date. He is vice president of the Fish Stone Company. Residence 267 Hamilton avenue. The Thirty-ninth Degree. Herbert. Brooks, banker, entered the banks of Brooks, Butler & Company as collection clerk 1869; was with the bank until it went into liquidation, and later was connected with other financial institutions. Residence 99 North Monroe avenue. The Thirty-eighth Degree. William M. Fisher, commission merchant, entered business April, 1870, on South Fourth street; change the present site 122-124 East Town street in 1882. Residence 695 Bryden Road. The Thirty-sixth Degree. Frederick John Williams, tea. and coffee merchant, began this business in 1872 at the corner of High and Town streets ; removed to 19 East Town, where the business is still carried on. Residence 1224 Bryden Road. The Thirty-sixth Degree. James H. Sells, hardware, harness and saddlery. Began business with McCune, Lonnis & Company. April 1. 18 72. Changed to 172 South High street in 1880. Present. business location 32 East Chestnut street. Is pres- 458 - CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS ident of the J. H. & F. A. Sells Company, wholesale harness and saddlery. Residence 91 Winner avenue. The Thirty-sixth Degree. Arthur Harris Smythe, bookseller, etc., began business in hardware house of P. Hayden & Company, 1872. Later, in the same year, entered the book store of Randall & Aston. At present proprietor of the book store in the Neil House Block. Residence 242 East Gay. The Thirty-fifth Degree. Moses M. McDaniel, wholesale groceries, retired in 1907. Entered the wholesale grocery business in 1873. Later in the manufacturing business. Previous to coming to Columbus, from which date his degree is reckoned, he had 30 years' experience in the wholesale and retail mercantile business in Roseville, McConnelsville and Zanesville, so that his actual degree, uniting the two, is sixty-five. The Thirty-fifth Degree. Fred J. Gottschall, entered the dry goods business in 1873, and was with Gustavus Maier for twelve years. For twenty years he was proprietor of a dry goods store on South High street. He has, at present, the charge of a department in the Dunn-Taft Company, dry goods store, North High street. Survivor o f Lincoln Electoral College. At the November election in 1860, the following persons were elected and constituted the electoral college of Ohio, and cast the electoral vote of the state for Abraham Lincoln of Illinois for president and Hannibal Hamlin of Maine for vice president: Frederick Hausaurek, Joseph M. Root, Benjamin Eggleston, William M. Dickinson, Frank McWhiney, John Riley Knox, D. W. H. Howard, John Kellum, Nelson Rush, Abraham Thompson, John F. Hinkle, Hezekiah H. Bundy, Daniel B. Stewart, Richard P. L. Baber, John Beatty, Willard Slocum, Joseph Ankeney, Edward Ball, John A. Davenport, William K. Upham, Samuel B. Philbrick, George W. Brooke, Norman K. McKenzie. The fifteenth elector, General John Beatty, was in 1860 a resident of Cardington, Ohio, where he had been engaged in the banking business from 1852. He is the sole survivor of the electoral college of Ohio, which cast its vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and as far as known the only surviving elector who cast a vote for President Lincoln when he was chosen to his first term almost half a century ago. General Beatty was born in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1828 and in 1852 entered the banking business in Cardington. In 1861 he entered the military service, first as captain, and was promoted lieutenant colonel of the Third PAGE 459 - GEN. JOHN BEATTY PAGE 460 - BLANK CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF COLUMBUS - 461 Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was promoted colonel of the regiment in 1862, and brigadier general later in the same year. He stepped from the counting room into the tented field and was, with his men, seasoned to war and the shock of battle within three months. He served with gallantry and distinguished bravery- in Kentucky, at Stone River, around Chattanooga, at Chickamauga and in other campaigns until the close of hostilities and then came back to his bank at Cardington. He was elected three times to congress and served in the fortieth, forty-first and forty-second. He came to Columbus and took up the banking business here, with which he is still connected, but not in the active manner that characterized the first half century of his business career. PAGE 462 - BLANK PAGE 463 - BLANK PAGE 464 - RICHARD A. HARRISON (RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) |